Dinky Engine Moved To Beckley For Exhibition Mine Display
A small mining engine was trucked from Crab Orchard to Beckley to be restored for display at New River Park near the Exhibition Mine. Perdue Transfer and Storage donated the six hour move with a five man crew and multiple heavy machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crab Orchard
Beckley
Beckley Exhibition Mine
Winding Gulf Coals, Inc
Raleigh County Vocational
Joe Perdue
Vo-Tech Center
H. H. Perdue
Ghost Mountain Park
North Carolina
Perdue
Spade Transfer Co
Jack
Bob Perdue
New River Park
Park Road
Exhibition Mine
Beckley Exhibition
Perdue Transfer and Storage Co
Raleigh County Vocational Technical Center
Elmer Warden
The Doctors Mailbag Mineral Oil Laxative Questioned
Dr Wayne Brandstadt cautions against daily use of mineral oil as a laxative or in cooking. He explains it is indigestible and coats food particles hindering digestion, may cause irritable bowel and gas, and can leak from the rectum if overused. He notes cancer risk depends on source and refining, with coal tar or shale origins being more dangerous.
Unitarians To Hear Dean Lockwood Sunday
Dean Theodore D. Lockwood of Concord College will address the New River Unitarian Fellowship in Beckley at 11 a.m. He will discuss religion and public schools including the Supreme Court decision. A discussion and coffee hour follow hosted by R. N. Noyes and Tom Phillips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore D. Lockwood
Concord College
Beckley
New River Unitarian Fellowship
Reservoir Road
Supreme Court
R. N. Noyes
Tom Phillips
Disabled American Veterans Plan Flag Display at Hospital
Beckley Chapter 18 of the Disabled American Veterans will display flags at the Veterans Administration Hospital on Veterans Day November 11. About 85 DAV and auxiliary members met in the Memorial Building and also approved buying a new 50 star flag for the meeting room and bidding to host the state convention in Beckley in June 1963. Adjutant Burl R. Currence said the convention location will be decided at the mid year state meeting in Charleston in early November. He urged interested disabled veterans to write to Beckley Post Office No. 398 for information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Veterans Administration Hospital
Veterans Day
DAV
Memorial Building
Burl R. Currence
Charleston
Currents
Beckley Post Office
Surprise birth greets soldier husband abroad
Sgt. Bill Caldwell, away a week at Ft. Polk with the 45th Infantry Division, learns from his wife by telephone that she had given birth to their first child, a son, last Sunday just before his departure. She had sent word but it reached him too late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugo
Okla
UPI
Bill Caldwell
Ft. Polk
Caldwell
Louisiana
45Th Infantry Division
Fifteen Seek Work at Beckley WV Employment Office
Fifteen job applications were processed at the Beckley office of the West Virginia Employment Security on Wednesday. The applicants include a automobile sales manager, two stenographers, a clerk typist, an elevator operator, a bookkeeper, three truck drivers, a flat work feeder in laundry, a child monitor, a supply clerk, a routeman, a cashier, and a dayworker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
The
West Virginia
Military Men In The News At Home And Overseas
Cadets and enlisted personnel from the U S Air Force Army and Navy are profiled as they graduate or advance in rank. Included are Cadet Relva L Lilly set for second lieutenant commission in June 1963, Airman 1 C James L Snyder, Pvt Walter R Arthur, and several sergeants and specialists serving in Germany Washington D C and Beckley with units such as the 83rd Artillery 3502nd USAF Recruiting Group and the 12th Artillery. The article notes overseas arrivals promotions assignments and recent training exercises including Exercise Clear Lake at Eglin AFB.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Air Force Academy
Colo
Relva L. Lilly
Regular Air Force
Lilly
Air Force
Mark Twain High School
Velmer C. Lilly
Rhodell
U. S. Air Force
William W. Renkovish
Hugh S. Weeks
William L. Cochran
Renkovish
Weeks
Cochran
Beckley
USAF
Olmsted Afb
Beulah Burgess
Oak Hill
Collins High School
Beaulah Johnson
Etta Weeks
Pax
Pax High School
Sonia Williams
Sgt. Cochran
Bertha Cochran
Stadium Terrace
Mount Hope
Mount Hope High School
Shirley Blake
Cynthia
2Nd Infantry Division
U.S. Strike Command
Eglin Air Force Base
Fla
Charles W. Keesee
Richard Keesee
Helen
Keesee
12Th Artillery
Fort Benning
Army
Phyllis
Columbus
101St Airborne Division
U. S. Strike Command
Donald G. Harper
Lois
Route 1
Sylvester Rogers
James Rogers
F St
Nobel laureates and land grant colleges study link
Twenty five of America’s forty two living Nobel Prize winners attended land grant colleges. The statistic highlights the historical role of public universities in producing distinguished researchers and scholars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Deeds On File Record Of Real Estate Transfers
Real estate transfers recorded in the county clerk office include Virgil C and Jewell M Brown to Richard E and Alice F West Beckley Town District 8500 dollars. Donald Ray and Mary C Windon to William and Bernice A Dicelvo 4500 dollars. Raleigh Real Estate Co Inc to William H and Francoise E Perry Beckley Town District 16500 dollars. David E and Dee Smith to Henry David and Helen W Smith district for a consideration. Bertie L Calloway to James Ansel Lilly Flat Top Lake Shady Spring District. James Lilly Inc to Ronald Bee and Donna Rae Cantley North Hills Addition Town District 1750 dollars. George W and Linnie E Diehl to Grace Edna Deihl Coal City Slab Fork District for a consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil C
Jewell M. Brown
Richard E
Alice F. West
Beckley
Donald Ray
Mary C. Windon
William and
Bernice A. Diclevo
Raleigh Real Estate Co., Inc
William H
Francoise E. Perry
David E
Dee Smith
Henry David
Helen W. Smith
Bertie L. Calloway
James Ansel Lilly
Flat Top Lake
Shady Spring
James Lilly Inc
Ronald Bee
Donna Rae Cantley
North Hills
George W
Linnie E. Diehl
Grace Edna Deihl
Coal City
Slab Fork
Storer College Joins Harpers Ferry National Monument
Storer College at Harpers Ferry, a Negro education center since shortly after the Civil War, was acquired and added to Harpers Ferry National Monument for 205000 dollars after title defects necessitated condemnation. The Park Service will use some buildings for a training center for historians naturalists and archeologists with an initial session planned for 1963.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Storer College
Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry National Monument
Department of the Interior
National Park Service
the Park Service
Conrad L. Wirth
Wirth
The
Park Service
Yosemite National Park
Calif
Grand Canyon National Park
Arizona
Yosemite
Grand Canyon
Just-A-Mere Club Hears Pastor's Talk
The Just-A-Mere Club met at Mrs. Jerry Peck's home in North Beckley to hear Rev. Corey O Mitchell discuss improving group relations and personality cultivation. Officers for the year were elected, with Miss Lula Rogers as president and plans made for a November party and participation in the State Centennial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Just-A-Mere Club
Samuel Heston
Lula Rogers
Andrew Durgan
Dulcina Lawson
Jerry Peck
Corey O. Mitchell
Just-A-Mere
North Beckley
Mitchell
E. Stanley Jones
Rogers
Charlotte Cooney
Nathaniel Braxton
Robert Snyder
James Spradley
Carl Boyden
Physicians Vote On Pay Dispute In Vienna
About 1 960 physicians in Vienna waited for ballot results Saturday on whether to extend a three month wage dispute with the National Health Insurance Co. They seek higher pay per patient treated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
VPI
National Health Insurance Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wayne Brandstadt
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Unitarians
Dean Lockwood
U. S. Air Force Headquarters Command Non-Commissioned Officers
Bolling Air Force Base
Washington, D. C
James L. Snyder
Mary Snyder
Airman Snyder
Herndon High School
Mary Newsome
Heathsville
83Rd Artillery
Germany
Pvt
Walter R. Arthur
Virginia
Melvin Arthur
Lanark
Arthur
Artillery
Budingen
Woodrow Wilson High School
U. S. Army
Bad Tolz
David T. Bailey
Goldie Bailey
Jesse Bailey
84Th Engineer Battalion
Paris
France
Glen Rogers High School
Lexington
Pensacola, Fla
Jennings G. Willis
Goff Willis
Naval Air Station
Norfolk
Dennis L. Bedwell
Vilas Bedwell
Stoco High School
Bedwell
Navy
Great Lakes
Franklin W. Cumbow
Judith Warren
4627Th
Custer Air Force Station
Mich
Cumbow
L. E. Cumbow
Hilltop
Sheppard Afb, Tex
C. Lowell B. Griffith
Westover Afb
Mass
Oceana High School
Griffith
T. W. Griffith
Oceana
Mary Cook
Jesse
Doreen
Europe
Newport
R. I
Wasp
Jerry C. Miser
William G. Miser
Route 3
Monument
Henry T. McDonald
Brackett House
Quality Pastry Hop, Inc
Neville St
Fred H. Caplan
Supreme Court OF Appeals
Caplan
Public Service Commission
Robert P. McDonough
T Beckley
Ene
Famous Name
Annette
Manhattan
Bradley
Neville ST. — Beckley
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